Research Inititation Award: Ouroboros-Investigation of Dynamic Reconfigurable Optical Network-on-Chip Architectures

研究启动奖（RIAs）为历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的初级教师提供支持，他们开始建立研究计划，以及需要重新指导和重新建立研究计划的中期教师。 马里兰大学东海岸分校（UMES）是马里兰州整个东海岸地区唯一一所提供工程项目的大学，它的优势在于，它的工程项目是由一所大学提供的。 HBCU-RIA旨在改进未来的计算系统，特别是通过研究超级计算机系统设计。 该项目提出了一种创新的片上光网络（ONoC）架构，可以动态重新配置以满足各种应用需求。 这种新的体系结构，大毒蛇网络，具有通用的开放拓扑结构，可以重新配置为任何基于欧拉循环的网络。 除了有助于UMES在计算机科学和工程方面的研究能力外，该项目还将通过传播工作更广泛地促进本科STEM教育，从而整合研究和教育。 传播活动包括项目网站、STEM会议演讲和发表的论文。此外，该项目将通过将研究融入课程教学和高级顶点设计，为STEM课程和计算机工程课程做出贡献。本科生和高中生也将通过该地区活跃的REU（本科生研究经验）和AEOP（陆军教育推广计划）活动等项目参与相关研究。

Research Initiation Awards (RIAs) provide support for junior faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) who are starting to build a research program, as well as for mid-career faculty who need to re-direct and re-build a research program. It is expected that the award helps to further the faculty member's research capability and effectiveness, improves research and teaching at the researcher's home institution, and involves undergraduate students in research experiences.The University of Maryland-Eastern Shore (UMES) holds the advantage of being the only institution that offers engineering programs in the entire eastern shore area of Maryland. The HBCU-RIA is aimed at improving future computing systems, particularly through research on supercomputer system design. The project addresses an innovative Optical Network-on-Chip (ONoC) architecture that can be dynamically reconfigured to meet various application needs. This new architecture, the Ouroboros Network, features a generalized open-topology structure that can be reconfigured to any Eulerian Cycle based network. In addition to contributing to UMES's research capability in computer science and engineering, the project will integrate research and education by promoting undergraduate STEM education more broadly through its dissemination efforts. Dissemination activities include a project website, STEM conference presentations, and published papers. Furthermore, the project will contribute to STEM courses and curricula in computer engineering by integrating the research into course teaching and the senior capstone design. Undergraduate and high school students will also be incorporated into related research through programs such as the area's active REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) and AEOP (Army Educational Outreach Program) activities.